The war keeps taking pieces of me anyway. Makes the rest of me harder to hit.

It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.

We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.

Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.

The war could kill the faith in him, too, if he was not strong or careful enough. He could feel it fluttering within him sometimes, a bird in a cage of knives. Its own blood on its face and wings.

I can't believe she's lived this long. God must be avoiding her.

There are no words for so much loss, not right after it happens.

These cords that God makes, Reverend Bauxite thought, we stand holding one end while they run taut into the darkness.

Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, define it.

I've never heard of a comedy that hasn't had reshoots, especially for the ending of a movie in a comedy.

I love being married. I was single for a long time, and I just got so sick of finishing my own sentences.

Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves.

I want to go to Egypt and Japan and open orphanages... a chain of them.

His quiet certainty made the ground beneath my feet feel solid. Like someday everything might actually be okay.

It would be interesting to go to Buckingham Palace. I'd just like to see what goes on - I'm not bothered about hearing any political chat.